Dr Soroosh Saghiri

Soroosh is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, with more than 22 years of teaching experience at the undergraduate, postgraduate, doctorate, and executive levels. His teaching topics include operations strategy, supply chain management, retail logistics, procurement and sourcing, and project management and leadership.

His advanced teaching techniques and innovative approach to training (e.g. case-based teaching, problem-based learning, and business simulation games) have been proven to be very popular among the trainees. Soroosh has been a guest lecturer for several world-leading business schools and companies in various countries.

Soroosh has BSc and MSc in industrial engineering, MA in higher education, and an award-winning PhD in operations management (University of East Anglia).  He is a Senior Fellow member of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and has several years of industry experience in the automotive, oil & gas, healthcare, food, retail, and manufacturing sectors. Under his leadership, numerous successful academic and executive programmes have been developed and accredited.

Before joining the University of Southampton, Soroosh served as director of Executive MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Leading Procurement Strategy executive programme, and Procurement and Supply Management Centre at Cranfield University for twelve years.

Soroosh has led and contributed to many research projects (~ £0.5 million) in the areas of supply chain data management, procurement transformation, business process outsourcing, project management, supply chain resilience, and perishable inventory management. Soroosh’s research outcomes have largely appeared in CABS3&4 journals. His 2017 paper, “Toward a three-dimensional framework for omni-channel”, was the top-cited article in the Journal of Business Research, and his paper, “A structural approach to develop measurement instrument for production environmental efforts”, won the best paper prize in the 21^st International Conference on Production Research.

For the last 22 years, Soroosh has taught various subjects around operations and supply chain management and developed various lecture materials, business games, and case studies, among them his case study “Supply Management in Cradle-to-Cradle® Programmes: DESSO Approach” has been the best-selling case of the Case Centre (www.thecasecentre.org).